I was happily employed until I reached the Management level. - Grocery Manager Food Lion Employee Review

2.0
Aug 16, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Many associates, easy to develop work relationships. Depending on position the work is relatively easy. Good benefits package for full-time employees.

Cons

Good work tends to go unnoticed. You have to "play the game" to receive a promotion. The company seems to alter it's sales strategies and policies seemingly every month. Pay is below average.

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Cons

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Pros

They (management) can be reasonable at times, such as with your breaks and scheduling.

Cons

My current management isn't giving me enough hours to be even decently sustainable, yet they have open-shifts available that they could assign to anyone, so why not give those hours to people who are severely underscheduled? If you want your workers to work for you, treat them right and compensate them fairly, and stop expecting them to come in everytime you text them just because someone else called out, maybe you need to give the people who constantly call out less hours because they aren't being reliable, and you need to give more hours to the people who do come to work and get things done, because they've proven to be reliable and willing to come in on their assigned days.

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